Robert F. Kennedy asked black Americans for the truth. They told it. RFK didn’t like what he heard.
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WWI Centennial Commission Chairman Robert J. Dalessandro
Under Dalessandro’s guidance the commission is coordinating centennial events in the United States and abroad
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Did The Chinese Really Conquer As Much As They Said?
Did The Chinese Really Conquer As Much As They Said?
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Daily Quiz for July 14, 2016
William Westmoreland was replaced by this man as US commander in Vietnam.
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Leading the Way on Omaha Beach on D-Day
A conversation with John C. Raaen, Jr.: Raaen retired in 1979 as a U.S. Army Major General. Thirty-five years earlier, as a 22-year-old captain 17 months out of the U.S. Military Academy, he made his first amphibious landing under fire at Omaha Beach. He received a Silver Star for gallantry that day in actions for which the 5th Ranger Infantry Battalion was awarded a unit citation
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‘Because I said So’: The Changing Role of the Presidency
The presidency is an exclusive club, and its members are not above bending the rules—even at the expense of the Constitution.
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A Combat Photographer’s Initiation on Iwo Jima
An excerpt from the memoir of Dickey Chapelle, the first female American war correspondent to be killed in action
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What’s the Matter with Public Service?
Is the maxim long held by many great American political dynasties “To whom much is given, much is required,” a relic of the past?
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Nightmare Up North–B-52s Over Hanoi in Linebacker II
Just seconds before a B-52 released its bombs over North Vietnam, the crew found itself in the bulls eye of a surface to air missile traveling at 2,400 mph